B

BIOS Basic Input/Output Services (System) (the "firmware" in a PC computer)
BMP BitMaP (the most commonly used image file format in Windows)
BNC Bayonet Neill-Concekman (a coax. connector often used with network cables)
bps Bits Per Second
Bps Bytes Per Second
BTL Backplane Transceiver Logic (a high speed logic technology used in FutureBus)
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N

nn News Network (a global electronic mail news system)
NLQ Near Letter Quality
NTFS NT File System (used by Windows NT)
NTSC National Television Standard Committee (the television system used in the USA)
NRZ Non Return to Zero
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O

OCR Optical Character Recognition
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OS/2 Operating System 2 (an alternative to MSDos, introduced with the IBM PS/2)
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
OTP One Time Programmable
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W

WAIS Wide Area Information Service (a search service on the Internet)
WAN Wide Area Network
WORM Write Once, Read Many times (an example is the CD-R disk)
Wysiwyg What You See Is What You Get
WRam Windows Ram (a special Ram technology used for video Ram on video interface cards)
WWW World Wide Web (part of the "Information Super Highway")
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